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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES C. PRATT, OF VESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

ORNAMENTAL COVERING FOR UMBRELLA-STICKS, CANES, 86C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,152, dated May 31, 1881.

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To all whom tt may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES C. PRATT, a Citizen of the United States, residing at Westiield, county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ornamental Coverings for the Sticks ot Umbrellas, Canes, and other Analogous Articles, of which the following is a speciiication. 4

This invention relates to ornamental Coverings or exterior iinish for umbrella-sticks,canes, and other similar articles, applied upon the wood or other material ot' which they are made, the object being to provide a coverin for this class of articles, to be used instead ot' enamel and similar inishes, and which may with advantage be used instead of ivory in the manufacture of said articles, and whereby the most beautiful ornamental eiiects may be produced, having a range from pure white to almost an infinite variety of colors, either single or intermingled.

In the drawings forming part ot' this speciication, Figure l represents the lower portion of an umbrella-stick havin g my improved cov'- ering applied thereto, by winding it spirally thereon. Fig. 2 represents the upper portion of a cane having my improved covering applied thereto by braiding. Fig. 3 represents a piece ofthe covering ofthe stick, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4, a piece ofthe braided covering, Fig 2.

1n the drawings, a is the umbrella-stick. bis the handle. ois a strip of Celluloid. dis the head of the cane. c is the Cane-stick, and t' represents strips of Celluloid applied to the stick e bybraiding them around it.

My improved umbrella and cane stick covering consists of a thin :narrow strip of celluloid Wound spirally around them or applied thereto by braiding.

The method of winding is shown in Fig. 1,

and that ot' braiding in Fig. 2. In the former the Celluloid is made in the form of thin narrow strips, and the latter are wound around the sticks, as shown, thc ends thereof being properly fastened thereto. This method of preparing and applying Celluloid as a covering for the above-named articles admits ot' producing a great variety ot' styles of ornamental finish, for, as is well known, Celluloid can behad ot' a color so nearly resembling ivory as to make it nearly impossible to distinguish it from that material and it can also be furnished in variegated colors in the same strip, and of many brilliant single colors. Thus two or Inore Colored strips may be wound upon said stick, thereby producing a beauty of inish which is unapproachable in apgearance and very inexpensive, and as the material is very hard its durability is beyond any similar finish heretofore produced, and it admits ot' a high polish.

The braided finish or covering shown in Fig. 2 furnishes even a wider range for the inter- Iningling of beautiful colored strips.

The above-described Coverings are applicable to whip-stocks, the lower portion of iishingrods, and a great variety ot' other articles, as well as to umbrella and cane sticks; and the method herein shown of applying said Celluloid coverin gs permits of such applications with great advantage.

What I claim as my invention is- The within-described improved covering` lor umbrella sticks, canes, and other analogous articles, consisting ot' a thin strip or strips of Celluloid applied thereto by windin g or braiding thereupon, substantially as set forth.

CHARLES C. PR ATT.

Witnesses:

H. A. OI-IAPIN, J. D. GARFIELD. 

